Development of Visual Systems for Faces and Objects: Further Evidence for Prolonged Development of the Face System

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 9; no. 6; p. e99942
• Main Authors: Meinhardt-Injac, Bozana, Persike, Malte, Meinhardt, Günter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 23.06.2014; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adolescence; Adolescent; Adolescent Development - physiology; Adolescents; Adult; Adults; Age; Age groups; Biology and Life Sciences; Child; Child development; Child Development - physiology; Children; Children & youth; Cognitive ability; Comparative analysis; Face; Female; Humans; Information processing; Inversion; Inversion effects; Male; Memory; Pattern recognition; Perception; Social Sciences; Studies; Teenagers; Visual perception; Visual Perception - physiology

The development of face and object processing has attracted much attention; however, studies that directly compare processing of both visual categories across age are rare. In the present study, we compared the developmental trajectories of face and object processing in younger children (8-10 years)...